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The Completion Agenda
Michigan Community College Association
Traverse City, MI
July 26, 2013
Terry O’Banion
Three Key Questions
1. What is the Completion
Agenda?
2. Why is it important?
3. What really works to help
students succeed?
Question One
What is the
Completion Agenda?
The Mission of Completion
The mission of the
Completion Agenda is to
double the number of
students who by the year
2020 earn a one-year
certificate, associate’s
degree, or transfer to a four-
year college or university.
Completion Agenda
• President Obama: 5 million more
CC grads by 2020
• Lumina: 60% increase by 2025
• Gates: double number of grads
• CC Org: 50% more by 2020
• C&U Org: “critical campus priority”
• Utah: 66% by 2020
• Anne Arundel: double by 2020
The Gates Foundation
“The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has identified the
community college as a key player in education and is supporting its
role in the national agenda to double the number of low-income
young adults who earn a postsecondary credential….
investing $475 million over four years in its Postsecondary Success
strategy.”
The Lumina Foundation--2013
In 2011, 36.8% of Michigan’s 5.2
million working-age adults held a
2 or 4-year degree.
By 2018, 62% of all Michigan jobs
will require a postsecondary
degree.
Measure of America 2013-2014
Michigan, the only state
with a 2010 American HD
Index score lower than its
2000 score, saw the
greatest decline in human
development over the past
decade.
June 19, 2013
Michigan Center for Student Success
1. Enhance student success
communities of practice.
2. Promote use of data.
3. Develop a sustained student-
success research agenda.
4. Encourage state-level policy action
and collaborative college efforts.
Student Success Initiatives • Accelerated Learning Program
• Achieving the Dream
• Adult Completion Policy Project
• Aspen Prize
• Benefits Access for College Completion
• Breaking Through
• Consortium of Veterans Benefits
• Credentials that Work
• Degrees Qualifications Profile
• Michigan College Access Network
• Project Win-Win
• Talent Dividend
Question Two
Why is the Completion
Agenda important?
Why Important?
• Once first in the world, America
now ranks 16th in the percentage of
young adults with a college degree.
• The World Economic Forum ranks
the U.S.’s educational system 26th
in the world.
Why Important?
The U. S. still ranks in the
top 5 most-educated G-20
countries for its older
workers but ranks 15th
among the 25-34 age
group.
Why Important?
• For the first time in our history, the current generation of college-age Americans will be less educated than their parents’ generation.
• “If your daddy was rich, you’re gonna stay rich, and if your daddy was poor you’re gonna stay poor.”
Esquire, January 2012
Why Important?
• 14% of CC students do not
complete a single credit in first term
• Almost 50% drop out the first year
• 60% need remediation
• 33% recommended for dvlp. studies
never enroll in those courses
Question Three
What really works to
help students
succeed?
Magic Practices
• Learning Communities
• First-Year Experience
• Contextual Instruction
• Project-Based Learning
• Supplemental Instruction
• Student Success Course
• Dual Enrollment
• Early College High School
“Best Practices”
“While colleges will likely need to
adopt some new practices and
adapt some older practices,
practice-based reforms cannot be
the primary work undertaken by
colleges participating in
Completion by Design.”
Venezia, Bracco, & Nodine 2011
“Best Practices”
Adopting discrete “best
practices” and trying to
bring them to scale will not
work to improve student
completion on a substantial
scale.
Davis Jenkins
April 2011—CCRC
Guidelines
Guidelines for Student
Success
Guidelines for Institutional
Success
Guidelines for Student Success
1. Every student will make a
significant connection with
another person at the college
as soon as possible.
2. Key intake programs
including orientation,
assessment, advisement, and
placement will be integrated
and mandatory.
Guidelines for Student Success
3. Every student will be placed in a
“Program of Study” from day one;
undecided students will be placed in
a mandatory “Program of Study”
designed to help them decide.
4. Every student will be carefully
monitored throughout the first term
to ensure successful progress; the
college will make interventions
immediately to keep students on
track.
Guidelines for Student Success
5. Students will engage in courses
and experiences designed to
broaden and deepen their learning.
6. Students will participate as full
partners in navigating college
services and the curriculum and
will take primary responsibility for
their own success.
Guidelines for Institutional Success
What do colleges need to
do to ensure that the
Student Success
Guidelines are met?
Guidelines for Institutional Success
1. A leader or core of key
leaders must champion the
Completion Agenda and be
able to rally a critical mass
of faculty and staff to
commit to the effort.
Role of Leaders
“There are many important
aspects of the Student Success
Agenda---But significant change
will not occur—and stick—
without visible, persistent
leadership from the college
president or chancellor.”
Byron & Kay McClenney 2010
Guidelines for Institutional Success
2. All decisions regarding
policies, programs,
practices, processes, and
personnel will be based on
evidence to the extent it is
possible to do so.
Guidelines for Institutional Success
3. Colleges will realign current
resources and identify
potential new resources to
support the goals of the
Completion Agenda.
Guidelines for Institutional Success
4. Colleges will apply
appropriate technological
innovations to create,
implement, and monitor
student success to
optimize efficiency and
effectiveness.
Guidelines for Institutional Success
5. Colleges will create and
implement guidelines for
rapid, expansive “scaling
up” of successful
programs and practices.
Guidelines for Institutional Success
6. Professional Development
for all college stakeholders
will focus on student
success and completion as
the highest priority.
AACC 2012 Futures Commission
Colleges need to find ways to make
student success central to the work
of everyone on campus. Effecting
this transformation will require a
clear and steady commitment to
professional development across
the institution, focused relentlessly
on student success and completion.
The Aspen Institute
In our work with high performing
community colleges, we have
learned that institutional
transformation focused on
student success always depends
on substantive and sustained
programs of professional
development.
What Do We Need?
In the words of poet
T. S. Eliot
we need leaders who are
willing
“to disturb the universe.”
The Completion Agenda
Failure
is not an
option.
Terry O’Banion
Ancora Imparo
“Still I Am Learning.”
Michelangelo
League for Innovation
Access, Success, and
Completion: A Primer for
Community College Faculty,
Administrators, Staff, and
Trustees
Terry O’Banion 2013
Order from www.league.org